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RESTORED AND RENEWED, `YOUNG GIRLS' IS A MAGICAL LITTLE MUSICAL.(What's Happening)(Review)
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
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December 11, 1998
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 1998 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Though it never received much fanfare upon its release in 1967, ``The Young Girls of Rochefort'' is a magical musical that's been painstakingly restored to lustrous pastel perfection by the filmmaker Agnes Varda, who was married for many years to the film's director and lyricist, Jacques Demy, who died in 1990.
The showcase of Demy's career was 1964's ``The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'' That film was an instant success and made a star of Catherine Deneuve.
Though his films were saturated with color that symbolized innocence, idyllic love and fated meetings, Demy was a surprisingly keen observer of the changing times, though he clung to values and moral codes that might be ...
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